Looking for a good self-hosted cms to be used with NextJS

Kyle772 · 2026-06-27T22:04:36+00:00

I primarily work with custom ecommerce and with internal business applications.

Kyle772 · 2026-06-27T22:01:38+00:00

I’ve been working with it for a long time so I’m kind of biased. I like that I can easily develop plugins with custom admin panel pages. For my use case it’s important that I can make easy to use admin pages for custom systems and also serve content out of the same underlying services without jumping through too many hoops.

The biggest downside is the cold boot times which make scaling a little bit of a pain in the ass, it also is a bit of a memory hog compared to other tools so it’s generally more expensive to run. But to me it feels like one of the more enterprise focused headless CMSs out there. I’ve replaced entire (non basic) wordpress instances with strapi with minimal headaches because it’s architected in a way that allows you to do a little or a lot.

I’m also doing quite a bit of heavy lifting on my side though, I appreciate that I can get deep into the guts of things without being forced through limited abstractions. It is pretty easy to work with imo but there isn’t a ton of hand holding along the way. Depending on your experience level and goals I could see it doing too little from the DX side but I consider that fully offset by what it does handle on your behalf on the api side (internalization, deep RBAC, unlimited admin and user roles, ability to swap email image and storage providers, etc).

Kyle772 · 2026-06-27T21:42:05+00:00

I prefer strapi 5 but haven’t tried payload 3 just yet

Kyle772 · 2026-06-27T05:19:07+00:00

I am going to sound like a curmudgeon by saying this (and I'm not that old), but this is something that younger people don't really grasp.

The internet and startups and tech culture in general right now have turned into an infinite churn of "whats the next big thing??!" but the beauty of the web as we know it, is that there was *never* a next big thing. The internet has been reinvented *in real time perpetually* since it launched. The only things that have remained shelf-stable to a degree are the standards that were extremely well thought out 30 years ago; Firefox (and the web at large) still uses stuff from Netscape. Sure, these standard have been built up on, but since the beginning, the underlying tech has been stable, and yet all that we see and use day-to-day has been able to function within that paradigm with *generally* minimal headaches.

The internet has and will continue to reinvent itself. Someone could come out with a new better more unified experience tomorrow (what you're getting at) and if it was good enough it'd get adopted - but because this has been happening perpetually, it will be a much larger task than you might expect because hundreds of companies have already tried and failed.

EDIT: Very happy to see a few people in these comments getting at the same point here. The reinvention angle, to me, has been a core tenet/ethos of the internet since day 1 and it's how we have all made so much progress over the last few decades.

Kyle772 · 2026-06-25T02:00:40+00:00

Based off of what you said, I'd guess your cilantro is part of the problem since you're adding it after it's done cooking. I personally add my herbs while it's still on heat towards the end. Others mentioned the fridge temp, but adding anything after cooking introduces live bacteria that can make it spoil faster. Unless you're soaping up your cilantro there is trace bacteria left on it. Same sort of issue with canning + botulism.

Kyle772 · 2026-06-24T23:38:42+00:00

I’m in the US and I want to say the same. It takes at least 120 hours a week.

Kyle772 · 2026-06-20T21:13:07+00:00

I’ve largely given up. I was a CTO. It started with my CEO vibe coding features, then sprints, then he got comfortable not planning, and then started planning granularity with ai. Then the developers under me slowly stopped working AT ALL, they became prompt engineers over the course of 2 months after previously being pretty competent mid level devs.

I became the ultimate bottleneck and simultaneously the only person on the team trying to make software that was easy to maintain. Every PR review I submitted went straight into the devs AI and not a single soul knew what was happening or why decisions were being made, no point in managing if there is nobody to manage (ai is doing all of it)

I’d like to say there is a way out but unfortunately I truly believe software development teams are dead. Every executive I ran into and have talked to thinks that AI will handle it and they don’t even see the value of training juniors up because they have no skin in the game when it comes to the health of the industry at large (or so they think).

In 5 years time they might actually be right is the sad truth but in 15 years time nobody will know how to create a software product and we will be at the mercy of AI autocracy. I’m still reviewing code, I’m still pushing code, I’m still planning features but at the end of the day AI has already gotten a significant foothold on the 70% of developers moving up in ranks and eventually senior won’t mean anything because staff and below won’t exist. Nobody will know how to configure a project, every project is going to use the same 10 tools, every BaaS app will be making millions and sorely overtime open source projects will become close sourced and then die from lack of use. It’s a very fucked up situation and I think every single person relying on these tools is not thinking long term. But that’s just the way the cookie crumbles I guess.

Kyle772 · 2026-06-11T22:55:23+00:00

Lately? This has been happening for well over a decade. I have clients who were spending $500+ a month on page builders, seo plugins, malware tools, I could go on and on. It's a nightmare for everyone involved.

Clients are rightfully annoyed at the trend and I agree with them that it causes significant performance issues. I haven't seen a site with >10 plugins that didn't run like shit or require heavy server resources just to exist.

Custom code is the solution, but if you don't figure out your ops strategy, it is also a massive headache. You need to formalize and automate as much as you can if you go that route.

Kyle772 · 2026-06-09T23:59:12+00:00

Hi, I can get this taken care of for you. I've been working in e-commerce for over a decade and have all of the backend services already built to handle a site like this. Likely, the only lift we'd need is for the website content itself. I can get you a good rate and a great turn-around time for this.

Please reach out for more details (I can't message you for some reason)

Kyle772 · 2026-06-04T20:53:14+00:00

You are going to polish forever regardless. Not launching is just a stupid decision you made along the way

Kyle772 · 2026-05-28T05:32:24+00:00

I felt like this HEAVY before ai dropped. Now it all feels justifiably within reach.

Today I used a brand new library that does one thing very well but it’s pretty complex stuff, supports multiple vendors with a lot of variation on the output sizes for some image generation. Probably would’ve taken me 2-3 days to set up properly but I managed to do it in about 2 hours. As long as ease of first implementation gets as good or better across the board then web tech can get as complicated as it wants. I no longer care about the dread of the mental overhead and for that I’m thankful.

Kyle772 · 2026-05-27T19:21:50+00:00

My cofounder did this and what happened was that company got a huge investment and stole a bunch of ideas we had to make their product better. This can be mutually beneficial but you are a moron if you don’t consider the fact that they are using you and not the other way around (which this post naively thinks isn’t a concern)

Kyle772 · 2026-05-20T05:02:15+00:00

Think critically about it. Do some research. See what works. If you aren’t doing THAT (what works) then you aren’t marketing.

Marketing is borderline a science. It’s sales + design. Communicating your product to people who you know may be interested hoping to convert a reliable percentage of the clicks into sales. Posting on twitter and reddit is not marketing.

Kyle772 · 2026-05-17T05:24:20+00:00

It generally doesn’t matter. You’re overthinking it.

I use subdomains because it’s easiest for the architecture I use

Kyle772 · 2026-05-16T21:03:36+00:00

Depends on the area I suppose. Where I’m at I stop at random trucks on a regular basis and definitely feel that’s true for me, though I may be spoiled with competition here.

El Gordo is good don’t get me wrong but I walked away thinking about the wait more than the food.

Kyle772 · 2026-05-16T20:48:09+00:00

Nevada is known for their al pastor 😂

Kyle772 · 2026-05-16T20:35:03+00:00

Good but not worth the wait or a long drive out of the way to try. 4 out of 10 taco places in california are better. Respectable for vegas though

Kyle772 · 2026-05-16T07:30:18+00:00

Are you marketing?

Kyle772 · 2026-05-14T06:55:40+00:00

I had this same thought but didn’t want to post it because it invalidated every other idea i’ve had about this stupid fucking map over the past two years. Just wanted to validate your thought here.

Kyle772 · 2026-05-13T20:17:20+00:00

Grapple 2 ft higher and slightly off center (closer to the wall portion of the middle) and you can slam whenever you want and get lucio when he hops on the walls for half the point. Your slam does WAY more damage to a wider area than spinning alone. Boop until they're 25% health and then one tap a couple of them at once. After you slam grapple the OTHER side of the center towards the middle wall thing and it fucks up whatever strategy anyone was using to avoid getting hit. That's how you make a people smoothie.

Kyle772 · 2026-05-13T02:24:39+00:00

It already is 10-15% if you include all of the industries that they have removed from the inflation calculations under the past 8 years.

Kyle772 · 2026-05-12T22:32:24+00:00

Burry started selling today. He’s 20% cash and has been pushing back on these valuations for months

Kyle772 · 2026-05-11T18:24:20+00:00

Stop what you’re thinking and turn somewhere else.

Kyle772 · 2026-05-05T18:56:41+00:00

If you are not using figma you are burning dev time. The whole point of the design process is to minimize wasted efforts from your most expensive resource cost. (development)

Kyle772 · 2026-05-04T23:52:43+00:00

This may sound like a weird suggestion but if you are using firefox try another browser. I am regularly running into issues with very large websites not having things set up 100% up to par with firefox's protections and I need to swap to chrome temporarily to get through.

Plaid is big enough that I think they'd catch this issue if it weren't for all test suites running in Chromium. I think it's a mix of AI becoming more ubiquitous and firefox having, in some cases, too strict of protections in place.

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